We are starting at #GEF25 with a plenary lecture by none other than Markus Sauer @sauer-lab.bsky.social and yes, there is ExM-STORM!

Typical "I know that story" and yes the biorixv was allready stunning... Makes me wonder about cells degrading the ECM...

I would have lost bets on that one

“The integrin odyssey – a journey full of fundamental discoveries” by Fässler and Sonnenberg in @jcellsci.bsky.social, worth a read! journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Huntingtin binds and bundles F-actin! Thrilled to team up with the Humbert (Sorbonne Université) and Song (KAIST) labs on this discovery. We had a blast doing cryo-ET on this unexpected complex — and now so many new questions lie ahead! #TeamTomo #CryoET #HTT #actin doi.org/10.1126/scia...

1/12 A very special moment for me! 🎉 My first paper as corresponding author—a @jcb.org Perspective on how contact-based decision-making in collective cell migration can itself encode blueprints for complex patterns and shapes. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #cellbio #devbio #science 🧵for details

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New perspective in @jcb.org by @maikbischoff.bsky.social & @mayorlab.bsky.social about how mesenchymal cells use contact-dependent rules to generate swarm-like behaviors, patterns & organ forms. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #CellBio #CellMigration #Morphogenesis #Development #Science

at the ENS de Lyon (Amphi Descartes) in Lyon on Tuesday 3rd of February 2026. two CNRS GDRs, 'Approches Quantitatives du Vivant' and 'Micro Nano Fluidique'. 'Microfluidics for biological characterisation and diagnosis' and 'Organs-on-a-chip / Cell biology on a chip'. mnfaqv2026.sciencesconf.org)

we found that nuclear envelope rupture triggers rapid DIAPH3 formin influx to generate a actin mesh to prevent further chromatin leakage from damaged nuclei. thanks to Pitter Huesgen @degradomics.bsky.social and @cibss.bsky.social, @chrkam.bsky.social

We have developed a new workflow to map whole human organs at single-cell resolution, while integrating spatial transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics. We applied this workflow to map precancerous lesions of the fallopian tubes. More here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A new Perspective discusses the challenges of sharing annotated image datasets and offers advice for improving bioimage annotation and reuse, particularly for AI applications. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Solange wir gehorchen, wird alles gut. Das ist Freiheit. Das ist Amerika." Starke Anti-Trump-Kampagne.

In preparation for our annual microscopy course I used #NotebookLM to gather resources about light-sheet microscopy and get ideas for teaching and get a better understanding. Then I listened to the audio summary, and I got mad at how decently good it was! notebooklm.google.com/notebook/3b5...

A ring of cells deforms into a triangular keyhole in just 15 minutes. Meet the hindgut, a model for boundary-driven morphogenesis! Out now in @pnas.org at doi.org/10.1073/pnas... with @zhaoshh.bsky.social, Alex Jacinto, Eric Wieschaus, Stas Shvartsman, @lepuslapis.bsky.social (1/8)

Amazing!!! 🧪 The 2025 Ig Nobel prize goes to scientists from the @mpipks.bsky.social for discovering a bullet proof version to make the classic pasta alla cacio e pepe! Including a deep understanding of the pasta sauce in terms of phase separation physics 😃 Congrats @gbart.bsky.social et al! Links👇

Happy to share our new study @ijmonod.bsky.social and @mpi-scienceoflight.bsky.social with C. Duclut and J. Prost. on forces generated by active fluid transport in epithelia and their role in tissue dynamics. Congrats to Huiqiong Wu, G. Arkowitz and R. Chilupuri! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A self-assembled nanoscale robotic arm controlled by electric fields | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🌟 We’re happy to share that @adelaljord.bsky.social will be speaking at the upcoming @embo.org Workshop taking place at @icfo.eu next February: "Intracellular Mechanics and Organelle Mechanobiology » 👉 Don’t miss it - applications are now open❗ meetings.embo.org/event/26-org... @crg.eu @prbb.org

Check the full preprint and its movies for more details: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Congrats @wiesner-t.bsky.social and the whole team! @inp-marseille.bsky.social @ncis-marseille.bsky.social @univ-amu.fr @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social @agencerecherche.bsky.social @neuromarseille.bsky.social 11/11

Introducing a new tool for lipid nano-mapping: Savoye et al. combine single-molecule localization microscopy with lipid order probes to compare marked point clouds, capturing both spatial and biophysical features of the membrane.

Lovely talk by Open Software Week participant @ishratz25.bsky.social on the challenges of using @brainglobe.info tools to identify very small regions, in very large images.

If you want to get started, here's a tutorial that I made: github.com/JoachimGoedh... Reach out if you have questions or want advice!!

If you are interested in the latest advances in Imaging Cell Dynamics, check out the 2026 @jcellsci.bsky.social Meeting. These small meetings are a terrific way to meet key people in the field and get feedback on your own work. Highly recommended! www.biologists.com/meetings/jcs...

The protocol describes an easy way to segment hundreds of junctions and analyze the distribution of different protein both horizontally, across the junction, and vertically, apical to basal. It combines imageJ scripts, with R Studio. Check it out!!!

🎉 Our paper “MIFA: Metadata, Incentives, Formats and Accessibility guidelines to improve the reuse of AI datasets for bioimage analysis” is out in @natmethods.nature.com! Community-driven standards to make bioimage data AI-ready & reusable. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #AI #Bioimaging #FAIRdata

We present a simple method to easily increase the imageable depth of an expansion microscopy gel on a typical inverted microscope ten-fold, using some carefully placed FEP film and a water dipping objective lens:

Exciting new work from the #Schaedel lab on the limits of microtubule self repair > will help us understand how #microtubules experiencing extreme compression in crowded 3D environments resist or give way.

A bit delayed, but excited to still share our latest paper, showing that intercellular forces transduced by E-cadherin activate EGFR-ERK signaling in epithelia by inducing EGFR ligand shedding! Mechanical and biochemical signals can act together within a single, linear cascade! tinyurl.com/mr9mj9j2

How can we use cell shapes and geometry to study mechanics of tissues? I'm @juliaeckert.bsky.social, and with this thread, I would like to show you the secrets of cells and tissues. Let’s connect biology with a little bit of physics. Don't be scared and get inspired 😀. #EpithelialMechanics

Happy to share that our paper on Tau- Microtubule interaction is now published in Nature Physics!🥳 We show that Tau isn’t just a microtubule stabiliser - it promotes removal of defects in the microtubule lattice. Congratulations @subhambiswas.bsky.social! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Order matters! Aurelien Roux @rouxlab.bsky.social studied the formation of multi-cellular tornado-like structures and regeneration of heads in hydra to share with us how stress fields, topology and geometry of initial tissue organization set the sequence of morphogenesis. #MBIMPG2025

Come and work with us 5-year position available for a University Researcher in Bioimaging 1.11.2025-31.12.2030 abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/index...

🦟 World’s biggest mosquito factory In Brazil, a new facility will produce 100 million Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes weekly. These harmless insects cut dengue spread by passing the bacterium to wild populations, reducing cases by 69% in trials. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/d415... #SciComm 🧪 #Dengue

Save the date! The @pasteur.fr Pasteur course on image analysis is announced: It will happen from the 1st of June to the 5th 2026. This year there will be only one track: the Early Career Investigator track (beginners). 👇

Want to test your multicellular system? I have created a GitHub repository, ‘3D_SurfProps’, where you can download the MATLAB codes of our 3D surface analysis method: 👉 github.com/Julia-Eckert... Any questions, suggestions, or ideas for improvements? Please DM or email me. Have fun testing!

Another #preprint: "Elasticity and plasticity of epithelial gap closure", from the #PhD work of Maryam Setoudeh: arxiv.org/abs/2509.05110 This one required a lot of (I think) beautiful #mechanics! @mpipks.bsky.social @mpi-cbg.de @csbdresden.bsky.social

Previous preprint is now published in RSC Chemical Biology. If you are interested in plasma membrane labeling, see the paper! 👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

new out in Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Zeus had his Hydra ⚔️, now Toxoplasma has its own. Meet Hydra: not a monster, but a brand-new protein domain. It multimerizes like crazy & rewrites the chromatin landscape 🧬 in Toxoplasma. Our team and colleagues from @embl.org #Grenoble just dropped the preprint 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our new preprint is about the airway epithelium microtubule network, cilia, basal body protein composition, averaging of volumetric fluorescence data, and expansion microscopy. Four years of very hard work from our very talented Emma van Grinsven. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/N)

📢 Recruitment for the EMBL International PhD Programme is officially open! At EMBL, we train young scientists to become skilled and creative future leaders in academia and other sectors. Join us and get a head start on your career in life sciences! bit.ly/47mmiFF

We (with @nicolasdray.bsky.social @zenlabpasteur.bsky.social) are happy to release officially FishFeats, our #napari plugin to streamline 3D smFish/RNA quantification! 🎊 Available here: github.com/gletort/Fish... user documentation: gletort.github.io/FishFeats/

Venkatesh B, et al. (@tanentzapflab.bsky.social lab) Inside-out integrin activation is essential for early mammalian development. Mol Biol Cell. 2025 Sep 3;:mbcE25030106. [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 40901728

Excited to share my postdoc work from the Eggeling lab in Jena (@leibnizipht.bsky.social, #FSUJena, #KTHuniversity) on bringing smart microscopy to super-resolution MINFLUX: event-triggered MINFLUX microscopy.

Bonjour à tous #ESR Est-ce que vous connaissez les outils de « La Suite Numérique » de la DINUM ? Le tchat, le transfert de fichier, les espaces collaboratifs ? Les utilisez vous ? Si non, pourquoi ? @sorbonne-universite.fr